Re: The Rifle Brigade Hotel

--- In TramsDownUnder@y..., "glenhuntlydepot" <webauthor@b...> wrote:

G'day Peter Bruce and group members

A great picture of a maximum traction car ascending View Street.

My

how things have changed since this was taken. The location is
actually near the intersection of McKenzie Street and View Street.
The building on the corner is a doctors clinic and is still there.
The Rifle Brigade Hotel is on the next corner (Rowan and View

Streets)

at the top of the View Street Hill, is still trading and

specialises

in boutique brewed beer on the premises.

This is also an interesting shot of the Bendigo skyline, looking
south east. In the distance can be discerned the Battery and

Poppet

Legs of the North Deborah mine, icons of Bendigo's mining history
which have now disappeared. I believe the winding machinery and

some

of the other mining equipment was purchased by Soverign Hill,
Ballarat and is now on display there.

Group subscribers should take the opportunity to visit Bendigo and
View Street in particular. The street scape has been considerably
restored, with the demolition of the 1960s built Bendigo Art

Gallery

(from where the photo was taken) and the redevelopment of a large
section of the top end of View Street as a heritage/cultural
precinct. All the tram poles have been completely restored with

the

only pieces of infrastructure absent being the trolley wire and

track

laid in granite spalls - it is still buried beneath the

grassed/treed

median strip though! If only we could get the trams back up View
Street again!

Thanks for the pic and the memories.

Mick

McGowan

>Mick

If only trams could run again up View St Bendigo.
Regards Jeff
(WebAuthor - Bendigo Tramways)

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